Dmitry Unkovsky
Lead ML Engineer at Grammarly
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Unkovsky is a Lead ML Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend and machine learning systems, currently driving ML initiatives at Grammarly since 2016. He combines deep engineering roots from Yandex and a decade of freelance architecture work with applied mathematics training from MIPT to solve production-grade, high-throughput problems. Dmitry moves fluidly between ML model delivery and infrastructure, having progressed from software engineer to lead roles while shaping deployment and performance optimizations. He is an active contributor to open-source tooling for build systems—enhancing grammarly/rocker with URL fetching, caching, and variable expansion—which reflects his knack for improving developer workflows and build reliability. Based in Ukraine, he brings a pragmatic blend of research-level rigor and hands-on systems engineering to complex ML platforms.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics and Physics, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (12)
caching10
docker10
go10
dockers10
build-automation10
url-validation9
apidoc9
url-parsing9
api9
url-parser9
url-encoding9
url-scheme9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grammarly/rocker
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Rocker breaks the limits of Dockerfile.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 54 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry implemented features to expand variable support within the Rocker build process, including those used in `ONBUILD` commands. They added support for URL downloads in `ADD` commands and implemented a caching mechanism for these downloads, improving build performance. Additionally, they refactored code, renaming components like `URLCache` to `URLFetcher`, and integrated the `URLFetcher` into the build process, demonstrating involvement in core build system enhancements.
dockerfile
cocaine/cocaine-framework-nodejs
Dec 2012 - Mar 2016
Cocaine Node.js Framework
Contributions:494 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
nodejs-framework
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